Improving the Future: The Girls of Yapatera Take Their Revenge
CHULUCANAS, Peru – When the 2017 Census published its results, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI as its initials in Spanish) revealed that the population of Piura Department had surpassed 1.85 million inhabitants. Estimates for 2023 consider that this figure is around two million. The same 2017 Census showed that out of the entire population of the department, 125,000 people identified as Afro- descendants . Statistically, Piura is the second most populous department in Peru. At that time, another indicator was added: it has the second largest Afro-Peruvian community , with three out of every 20 inhabitants being Afro-descendants, speaking in purely Piura terms. Proportionally, this means three out of every 20 inhabitants in the second most populous department of Peru are Afro-descendants. Of the entire Afro-descendant community in Piura, 47% are women . According to NGO Kaikuna , Afro-descendant women are vulnerable to poverty